The stolen documents from the Heartland Institute have caused a lot of comment on the blogs. There are a number of things that will come out of this. 1. The consensus climate scientists and their cohorts cannot deal with numbers. Just as they have no sense of proportion with financial values (see Jo Nova on [...]
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Heartland Leak – The Implications
Posted by manicbeancounter on February 17, 2012
http://manicbeancounter.com/2012/02/17/heartland-leak-the-implications/
CAGW – Paralleling Kuhnian Science or New Labour Spin?
A review of Montford’s “Hockey Stick Illusion” suggests that it is an example science described by Thomas Kuhn in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. Both the Hockey Stick in particular, and CAGW theory in general, I believe parallel something entirely different. Catastrophic AGW theory is not an example of Kuhnian science. It was swallowed whole by the political establishment [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on April 25, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/04/25/cagw-%e2%80%93-paralleling-kuhnian-science-or-new-labour-spin/
Interpreters of Interpreters to the nth degree
James Delingpole has attracted some ire for saying he is an “interpreter of interpreters”. I commented on Bishop Hill’s Blog Wasn’t the original hockey stick paper an “interpreter of interpretations”? That is it gathered together a selection of data studies of past climate proxies and tried to give an interpretation – with some elements of bias. The [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on January 31, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/01/31/interpreters-of-interpreters-to-the-nth-degree/
Copygate – the Underlying Significance
Steve McIntyre puts the Copygate scandal (paper here) of the 2006 Wegman Report into context. A minor, but potentially significant, point in all of this is the timing issue. The Wegman Report was published in 2006. Given the Hockey Stick Team are keen to pick up on any points that may undermine any criticism of their scientific [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on October 13, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/10/13/copygate-%e2%80%93-the-underlying-significance/
Denialists become Superfluous
OR Who Needs Enemies when you have Friends like These Climate Psychology is a blog specialising in mirror-posting articles from one side of the climate change argument, but with more lurid titles. The direct inference being that the truth of the science is so blatantly apparent that any criticism must be by the deluded, the [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on August 16, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/08/16/denialists-become-superfluous/
The Hockey Stick and Climate Science
Posted Yesterday to the discussion at Climate Audit on the topic of ”The Team Defends Paleo-Phrenology” It may help …. to understand the nature of the science. It relies on statistical techniques to establish results. These, crucially, depend for their validity on the elimination of bias. If a researcher has faulty data, then the results are undermined. If the researcher [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on July 27, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/07/27/the-hockey-stick-and-climate-science/
Tamino v. Montford – A Sense-Check
Clarification – This post is an attempt to say two things – but badly. First, a simplistic verification of a global temperature reconstruction is to cross-check against local temperature reconstructions from around the world. These, on average, strongly contradict the hockey stick. Second, Tamino’s claim is essentially McIntyre has just been taking pot-shots at sound science. Instead McIntyre has looked at all the steps [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on July 25, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/07/25/tamino-v-montford-a-sense-check/
Tamino v Montford on the Gaspé series
Have just finished reading A.W. Montford’s (alias Bishop Hill) The Hockey Stick Illusion. Although I thought it excellent, and agree with the reviews (e.g. Air Vent), I thought I would look for contrary opinions, to allow me to compare and contrast the different sides. It just so happens that Tamino has posted a critical review [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on July 24, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/07/24/tamino-v-montford-on-the-gaspe-series/
